Federal Courts Shrug at Potentially Lethal Wrong-Door Raids
Federal Courts Shrug at Potentially Lethal Wrong-Door Raids
https://reason.com/2025/06/18/federal-courts-shrug-at-potentially-lethal-wrong-door-raids/
How Republicans got Murkowski to yes on Trump’s megabill
Massive pork for Alaska. Where’s the tea party!?
“Murkowski..was able to extract key concessions for her state…She won victories on clean energy tax credits, delaying changes to food aid for her state and the promise of massive revenues from oil and gas drilling leases, among other priorities she can take back home.
In the end, she voted for a bill that makes up the core of her party’s domestic agenda.
“I held my head up and made sure that the people of Alaska are not forgotten in this, but I think that there is more that needs to be done, and I’m not done,” Murkowski told reporters immediately after the vote. “I am going to take a nap, though.”
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she ultimately voted for a bill she just minutes later decried as “rushed” and “imperfect.”
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What Murkowski was wrangling for was pretty basic: How to blunt the impact of the bill on her state.
“What I tried to do was to ensure that my colleagues understood what that means when you live in an area where there are no jobs, it is not a cash economy,” she told reporters. “And so I needed help, and I worked to get that every single day.”
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Bowhead whaling boat captains recognized by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission will be able to deduct more for whale-hunting-related expenses, up to $50,000 from the current $10,000.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-got-murkowski-yes-trumps-215200359.html
The Government Seized Her Home for a Project That Never Happened
“In 1994, Donald Trump tried to use eminent domain to take a woman’s house so he could create parking spaces for limos outside his casino in Atlantic City.
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A court eventually denied Trump’s Atlantic City land grab. That turned out well for everyone, since his casino went bankrupt, and no limos needed to park.
However, judges were less reasonable in another eminent domain case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/18/the-government-seized-her-home-for-a-project-that-never-happened/
Trump Argues That He Can Take Over a State’s National Guard Whenever He Feels Like It
“However the 9th Circuit ultimately comes down on that question, any decision addressing the legal merits of Newsom’s argument will amount to a rejection of the Trump administration’s alarming position that the president has the authority to deploy National Guard troops at will, even without pretending to meet statutory requirements or citing any facts to support his decision. That argument would transform the National Guard, today’s version of the state militia, into a federal force that the president can use at his discretion, without regard to constraints imposed by Congress or the 10th Amendment.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/18/trump-argues-that-he-can-take-over-a-states-national-guard-whenever-he-feels-like-it/
The Dangerously Irresponsible Tax Bill — ft. Maya MacGuineas | Prof G Markets
Although both parties have been fiscally irresponsible, the Republicans have been more irresponsible, despite talking about it more. The Democrats tend to offset some of their spending with taxes. Republicans just take on debt to pay for wars and tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G0G903y098
Iran Beyond the Headlines with Maziar Bahari | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
The Iranian government is corrupt and needs enemies to hold its people together. This is why it treats the U.S. as the great Satan and Israel as the little Satan. There’s no deep reason why Israel and Iran should be enemies or why Iran and the U.S. should be enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vS8GGPKtqI
Tillis: Senate bill breaks Trump’s promise on Medicaid
“Tillis — who voted against the bill in a key procedural vote Saturday night and announced Sunday he would not run for reelection — delivered a scathing rebuke of the president’s agenda-setting bill in a Senate floor speech, explaining his position and pledging to withhold his vote unless his concerns about drastic cuts to Medicaid are addressed.
“What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding’s not there anymore, guys? I think the people in the White House … advising the president are not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise,” Tillis said in his floor speech.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tillis-senate-bill-breaks-trump-024237867.html
Who would win and who would lose in Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’
Who would win and who would lose in Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wins-loses-republicans-big-beautiful-174002230.html
Last-minute changes to Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ stun clean energy industry (and Elon Musk)
“The energy provisions of the 900-plus page bill have come under particular scrutiny after last-minute changes phased out clean energy tax credits faster than expected and added new taxes on wind and solar projects.
At the same time, new last-minute inducements were unveiled for fossil fuels, including one classifying coal as a critical mineral when it comes to a government manufacturing credit.
“We’re doing coal,” Trump said in an interview released over the weekend on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” where he also called solar energy projects “ugly as hell.””
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/last-minute-changes-to-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-stun-clean-energy-industry-and-elon-musk-124435832.html
Trump, Iran and the Slow Creep of Presidential Power
The Constitution clearly puts the power of deciding to go to war in the hands of the Congress. The attack on Iran was a clear act of war. It was not authorized by Congress. The attack on Iran was unconstitutional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06f9bioCYRY